Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, the State had Queen Helen on trial for grand theft, soliciting a bribe and conspiracy. Her co-defendants were Convict Weinblatt and easy-going Pete Werner. Most damaging testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled...
...sensation on the radio when she sang on Eddie Cantor's hour this autumn, Edna May Durbin was born in Winnipeg, brought up in Los Angeles where her father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded the new company to hire her, changed her name...
Whether Deanna Durbin will really be as much of a drawing card as Universal expects is currently as perplexing to Hollywood as whether she is its oldest child actress or its youngest adult star. Cinemactress Durbin, currently in New York on vacation, owns three pet turtles, a black dog named Tippy, collects paper matches for souvenirs. She takes singing lessons from Andres de Segurola, piano lessons from Frances Minnerick, schools with a tutor in the studio, is nicknamed "Candy," likes to swim and ride. When she goes back to Hollywood she will live in a new house overlooking the Universal...
...feature, "Rose Bowl," is what the title suggests and not much more. Since Hollywood released their first football picture some years ago, they have changed little. There still romps the sleek, cocky star fullback, who breaks the small-town girl's heart, and the second-team "regular fellow," who runs wild in the final game to carry off both the victory and the same home town girl. In the middle of this very long film the producers showed a shallow streak of guilty conscience in the person of a meek professor, who objects to his small college vying...
...watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police in the Hollywood area recently had to clean up an outbreak of car "jockeys''-youths who jumped on the running board, wiped the windshield with a dirty rag, refused to budge until tipped. Berliners are bothered by car-watching on Kurfurstendamm, Chicagoans in the Loop, Viennese on the Ringstrasse...